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On Sunday, the Green Bay Press-Gazette put a link on its Facebook page to an Associated Press story detailing state aid cuts to organizations that help victims of sexual abuse. After that story was posted, a reader left a comment expressing outrage that the state would cut such aid and asserted that perhaps Governor Scott Walker’s wife or children should become victims of sexual assault so the governor could see the how devastating the state aid cuts really are.

"My Governor's a Jedi, Wisconsin for the Win!" Video: Star Wars Parody in support of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

Progressives are on the move once more. Wisconsin lit the spark, as workers, students, teachers and farmers occupied the state’s capitol in February and launched recall elections that sobered conservative Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his legislative allies. Occupy Wall Street turned that spark into a conflagration that swept the nation. Last week, in Ohio and Maine and even Mississippi, voters overwhelmingly rejected efforts to trample worker rights, constrict the right to vote and roll back women’s rights. These electoral victories have led pundits to wonder whether Occupy Wall Street will imitate the Tea Party and stand candidates for office....

Regan Cowan Rather than recall him... Can we kill him instead? Just curious.

Republican recall candidates are getting help on the campaign trail these days from Tommy Thompson. But the real question; Is Tommy running for U.S. Senate? There appears to be little doubt that Tommy Thompson will run for the Senate. He tells TODAY'S TMJ4's Charles Benson he has regretted every day not running in 2010 and he's sure sounding like a candidate in 2012. When asked if he is going to run, Thompson said "As I've told everybody, I'm very serious about it." If you are wondering if Tommy Thompson is really serious this time about running, here are two reasons...

Controversial Film about Governor Sarah Palin Premiered Last Week to Enthusiastic Sold-Out Crowds Film highlights Gov. Palin’s Wisconsin Challenge to Obama: “Mr. President, Game On!” Director Steve Bannon to Personally Attend Milwaukee Screenings and Meet Audience Members. The Wisconsin Chapter of Organize4Palin (O4P) today announced the greater Milwaukee area premiere of "The Undefeated" on Friday, July 22nd at the AMC Theater in Wauwatosa. This limited engagement premiere will run through Thursday July 28. The recently released film about Governor Sarah Palin's rise from obscurity to national prominence opened to a successful debut in ten selected markets nationwide last weekend. The...

Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker. Go, Scott! GO!

Wisconsin Republicans have now put forward a ringer Democratic candidate to force a primary in the recall against GOP state Sen. Dan Kapanke, as part of the state GOP's strategy to combat the recalls. The candidate: James Smith, a 25-year old hospital technician who has served on the La Crosse County Republican executive committee, and who will now challenge the official Democratic candidate, state Rep. Jennifer Shilling. The La Crosse Tribune reports: Smith, a regular fixture at local labor protests this spring where he held signs touting his support for Gov. Scott Walker, said he resigned his party leadership position...

After speaking at a Madison, Wisconsin, rally on April 16 in support of Governor Scott Walker's controversial public union policies Sarah Palin grabbed national headlines...but apparently not enough to satisfy the former Governor's sizable appetite for attention. In the hours following the rally, Palin's all around social media maven Rebecca Mansour took to the twitternets to scold the lamestream media she felt had unfairly ignored Palin's speech. Slate's David Weigel has a rundown of Mansour's complaints which we won't go over here, but suffice it to say Mansour would really like to know "what gives?" But according to research by...

Wisconsin unions have every right to go after Gov. Scott Walker and oppose his agenda to strip most collective bargaining rights from public sector unions. But, because Walker just took office in January, they'll have to bide their time and wait until late next fall before they can start collecting signatures on recall petitions. We saw the crowds outside the state Capitol last month and witnessed some of the heartfelt anger over Walker's plans. And we saw counterprotests, too, with heartfelt support for the hefty changes that Walker says are needed to balance the state's fiscal books both now and...

Impeach Scott Walker? Recall Rick Scott? Although it’s highly unlikely either first-year governor will be booted from office anytime soon, both are among a list of tea party-backed Republican state leaders who are facing significant public backlash after less than four months on the job. Online petitions to impeach the governors or redo their elections are common. Polls show that Mr. Walker, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Scott, of Florida, along with freshman GOP governors in several other states, would lose to their 2010 Democratic rivals in a do-over of the Nov. 2 elections. “They’re all trying to govern ideologically, and...

Little did I know that throughout my entire speech, an immature, grown man, was shouting profanities at me, nor that I was getting booed and yelled at by many other opposers. The leftists, you see, were just getting warmed up, and had not yet made their big push to try to completely drown out the speakers. The next couple speakers spoke, and it wasn’t until they spoke, that I began to actually hear the union protesters and their annoying shouting. I also saw a heckler come to the front of the crowd and yell throughout the majority of the speeches....

When Sarah Palin went to speak at the Republican convention two years back, a hurricane came in and shut it down. But I suppose it was just a coincidence that hundreds of tornadoes swept across the South when she gave her Wisconsin speech last week. Something to watch, like the apocalypse. When I was raising my kids there in lower Appalachia, apocalypse was well on the minds of the local radio preacher shamans in the mountains and in the serpent-handling so-called “primitive" churches in the hollows, and without question it shadowed the judgment of the born-again George W. Bush and...

Sarah Palin has been making more public appearances lately, attending a Tea Party rally in Madison, WI on Saturday, which once again raises the question: could Sarah win the Republican nomination and the presidency? It seems when it comes to Sarah Palin, people either love her or hate her and that could be her biggest obstacle in a Presidential run; she would need to win all those in the middle if she has any hope of winning. She would have to hope voters take her seriously, but she might not be given the chance to ever talk about the issues....

For the second time, Sarah Palin is weighing in on a major Wisconsin election. The former Republican governor of Alaska is endorsing incumbent David Prosser in Tuesday’s contest for the State Supreme Court. Prosser is running against Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg – and a Prosser victory would continue a 4-3 conservative majority on the state’s highest court. Palin announced her support for Prosser on Twitter this morning. It comes a day after Prosser lost one of his honorary campaign co-chairs, as former Democratic Governor Pat Lucey decided to back Kloppenburg instead. Last year, Palin ruffled feathers by endorsing prosecutor...

It looks like the Dems are getting desperate win a point any way they can, even if it is by spending 1 million on a local County Executive race for Scott Walker's old seat. A pretty sad and desperate move, and the worst part for them is it looks like 1 million can't even by them a local seat, the tide has fully turned...

Two liberal groups that have been going after the guv for his move to roll back collective bargaining have tweaked their TV ad to specifically call for the recall of GOP state senators. The spot from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America features interviews with protesters around the Capitol square talking about the personal impact of the austerity measures. The tweaked ads do not show pictures of the targeted lawmakers, but finish with a screen shot calling for their recall and listing the Web address for RecalltheRepublicans.com. The spot running in Green Bay mentions Sens. Randy Hopper,...

The day after an estimated 85,000 to 100,000 people massed on or near the Capitol in Madison in response to the passage of Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill, and the day after U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) mistakenly disclosed that Lexington and Concord, Mass., were really in New Hampshire, a friend e-mailed me a Sarah Palin joke. In this reincarnation of an old joke, Palin jumps from a stricken aircraft with a child's backpack she thinks is a parachute. Substitute a priest, a rabbi, a Muslim cleric, an Iowan, a Yugo owner, anyone, and the joke aims to say whoever...

The Republican 8 stayed in Madison, did their jobs, made the difficult decisions, and stood up for what is right for the People of Wisconsin. Now they are the ones facing RECALL ELECTIONS! These Eight Republican Senators NEED YOUR HELP! Donate via a link at the site

Gov. Scott Walker has always been considered a radio talk show darling. But who knew the talkers were actually opening their wallets to help him out? Along with receiving $500 from Charlie Sykes, the first-term governor also got $150 from Jay Weber, who has a morning show on WISN-AM (1130), and $100 from John "Sly" Sylvester of WTDY-AM (1670) in Madison in 2009. But wait - isn't Sly a liberal who has been appearing frequently at the Capitol protests against the first-term Republican governor? Yep. Sylvester said he was made the donation to Walker in an attempt to stick it...

Rush Limbaugh said the only Republican folks with a back bone are Palin and Bachmann. Last week Congress was apprised by the Heritage Foundation about the provision in the Obamacare bill which appropriates $105 billion towards its funding- a complete and fraudulent circumvention of the legislative process. In the bill, instead of following the rules and letting the next Congress go through the appropriations process, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats appropriated billions of dollars in funding for Obamacare without holding a single hearing, or even allowing Members of Congress a chance to read the bill. Why is Bachmann one of...

The 14 Senate Dems who left the state in an attempt to stop a vote on the budget repair bill will be featured at tomorrow's Capitol rally, organizers have announced.

"Special elections are a better indication than any poll can provide as to the mindset of the electorate as well as the motivation and organization of the base of each party between the predetermined election cycle."

Vicki McKenna is interviewing Gov. Walker now

How many times have we heard the lament: If only we had a leader who wouldn’t stick his or her finger in the air to see which way the wind was blowing, who wouldn’t govern by reading the polls every morning? We’ve all asked that question at one time or another. We’ve all wished for someone who would act according to principles rather than polls. Like his principles or not, we’ve got such a leader. In fact, Gov. Scott Walker took to his Twitter account this past weekend to pass along an article from the Weekly Standard – more about...

That's what Sarah Palin yelled at Gabrielle Giffords before she was shot, right? Or was it Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh? Just kidding. Conservatives don't talk like that. But liberals do--as we are now learning, they do it a lot. This time it was Rep. Gordon Hintz (D Oshkosh) who, immediately after the Republicans had passed their budget in Wisconsin's Assembly, turned to Rep. Michelle Litjens (R-Winneconne) and yelled, "You are f****** dead!" This is Assemblyman Hintz; is it just my imagination, or does he look like a jerk? There is a great deal of violent talk going on these...

In Wisconsin, we all know that the Democrat Members of the State Senate have fled the state in a pathetic display of juvenile antics akin to "ditching school." Many people have wondered what the Democrat Members of the Assembly are doing. Today we found out. When the bill trimming back benefits for public employee unions was passed in the State Assembly, this was their shocking reaction. Warning - this will make your blood boil when you see the disgusting behavior by what are supposed to be the representatives of "We The People."

The (Wisconsin) Senate voted 19-0 to repeal requirements that law enforcement collect data from traffic stops in an attempt to ascertain whether there is any racial profiling going on. The bill also repeals a requirement that law enforcement academies train recruits on avoiding racial profiling. Sen. Mary Lazich said the mandate, included in the 2009-11 state budget by Dems, said she heard from small and large communities about the difficulties imposed upon them through the legislation. "It's a huge, huge burden on our law enforcement community," she said.

This is an hour long podcast of Vicki's radio show from yesterday, Friday Feb. 28 - MP3 format. She sets the stage for todays rally and describes the filth, corruption, and "trashing our house" that has occurred all week at the Wisconsin State Capitol.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Democrats who fled Wisconsin to block a vote on a sweeping anti-union bill could stay in hiding for days or even weeks. Democratic state Sen. Jon Erpenbach spoke to The Associated Press at a Chicago hotel on Friday. He and fellow Democratic senators left Wisconsin on Thursday to delay the near-certain passage of a bill backed by Republicans and GOP Gov. Scott Walker....

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) is delivering the official rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union next week. But, thanks to technology and the tea party movement, it won't be the only Republican response. In concert with Tea Party Express, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is delivering her own post-speech message. Ryan's response will air on national television after Obama's speech; Bachmann's will be streamed on the Tea Party Express Web site. The news was announced in a fund-raising email. Bachmann founded a Tea Party Caucus in Congress, and Tea Party Express named her a "hero" in the 2010 election. Founded...

In early April of 2010, Michelle Litjens, the chairwoman of the Winnebago Republican Party, found some local guy that was thinking of running for the U.S. Senate. She brought him down to a meeting of a handful of conservative operatives in Madison. He didn’t even know he was supposed to speak at this meeting, and patched together a few talking points in the car on the way down. When Litjens introduced businessman Ron Johnson to the group, people rolled their eyes and checked their watches as he ambled through his reasons for running. There were already a few people thinking...

OSHKOSH, Wis. — Until last fall, Ron Johnson was just an intensely private guy with a good business and a nice house on Lake Winnebago. He kept a stack of Wall Street Journals next to his bed, folded just right so he wouldn't forget to read columnist Dan Henninger on this or Paul Gigot on that. A trim, silver-haired businessman, he was rich but unknown, even in this, his hometown, despite big donations to Lourdes High School and his thriving plastics company here. Running for office never crossed his mind. Barack Obama changed all that. Until last fall, Wisconsin seemed...

The pictures of University of Wisconsin students stretching to shake hands with President Barack Obama --– and in some cases being held up by fellow students to make the reach -- offered a reminder that this president still has the power to excite and inspire. He should use it more. Presidents are given the most powerful tool in the political arsenal: the national platform that Teddy Roosevelt referred to as the “bully pulpit.” They have the power to place ideas on the agenda and to call Americans, especially young Americans, to action. Obama’s trip to the UW campus was, of...

Rebecca Kleefisch, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is a proud Christian woman. She's a wife and mother who drives a minivan, clips coupons and has what she calls "kitchen-table common sense." She also boasts a large Tea Party backing for her ultra-conservative beliefs and platform. Sound familiar? You betcha! "Kleefisch is very Sarah Palin-esque, and she's embraced that," notes UW political science professor Barry Burden. "It's easy to see a lot of similarities in their backgrounds, their identities as mothers, their concerns on size of government and their folksy approach." Indeed, Kleefisch has long drawn comparisons to the Republican...

With his victory in Tuesday's primary, roofing contractor Reid Ribble will be the Republican nominee against Rep. Steve Kagen (D) in the northeastern Wisconsin 8th district this fall. He defeated state Rep. Roger Roth and former state Rep. Terri McCormick. With 63 percent of precincts reporting, Ribble had 50 percent of the vote to Roth's 29 percent and McCormick's 18 percent.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, who is said to be edging closer toward a race against Sen. Russ Feingold, leads the Democratic incumbent in a match-up by 45 percent to 33 percent with 14 percent preferring an independent or third party candidate and 7 percent undecided, according to a St. Norbert College Survey Center poll conducted March 23-31. The conservative Weekly Standard reported in late March that Thompson "has spent the past several weeks taking the steps any candidate must take in order to run for office -- he's evaluating staff, he's talking to fundraisers, and he's separating himself from...

Police were called on a group of retirees who refused to leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office until she talked to them about health care reform. Los Angeles...

“I am considering a run for Congress,” Ashland County District Attorney Sean Duffy said in an interview Wednesday. “On Wednesday, I’m going down to Wausau to talk about what the future holds.” The Republican Party of Marathon County on Wednesday announced an event next week at Wausau Homes featuring a “very special announcement regarding the 7th Congressional District,” expected to be Duffy’s formal announcement. Duffy is active with the Republican Party of Wisconsin, but he is perhaps best known as a former cast member on the MTV reality show “The Real World: Boston” in 1997. His conservative political views were...

On Sunday I decided that I was going to take advantage of the in person absentee voting option available to me in the great state of Wisconsin. This afternoon, after much soul searching, I cast a vote for McCain/Palin. I decided to do this because I really didn’t want to risk waiting in line for hours on end on Election Day as I did in the primaries. Or be forced to watch a performance by My Vote Performs. Beyond that, however, was my desire to avoid having someone else vote in my name. A real concern in the City of...

September 4, 2008 - ISSUE 2(View archives of the Newswire @ http://palinpingers.libertyrocks.us/archive/) TODAY AT FreeRepublic.com: GOP Convention LIVE THREAD - DAY 4 - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074584/posts UPCOMING EVENTS: September 5, 2008 - What: McCain Street U.S.A. in Cedarburg, Wisconsin When: 9/5/08 @ 8:00 a.m. Where: The corner of Washington Ave. & Columbia Rd. in Cedarburg, WI For more information - CLICK HERE September 5, 2008 - What: Road to Victory Rally When: 9/5/08 @ 5:00 p.m. Where: Freedom Hill Ampitheatre, 1400 Metro Parkway, Sterling Heights, MI For more information & a Map - CLICK HERE September 6, 2008 - What: Road to...

PLEASE JOIN JOHN McCAIN & SARAH PALIN For McCain Street USA!! This Friday! September 5th 2008 Doors Open at 8:00 a.m. Programming Starts at 10:00 a.m. Downtown Cedarburg At the corner of Washington Ave and Columbia Rd Please RSVP by calling (414) 326-4235, or clicking here.

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani will pick up the endorsement Friday of former GOP rival Tommy Thompson, a one-time Midwestern state governor. "Rudy Giuliani has shown that he is a true leader. He can and will win the nomination and the presidency. He is America's mayor, and during a period of time of great stress for this country he showed tremendous leadership," Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor, said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press. The former New York mayor is to accept the endorsement in South Carolina later Friday. Thompson is the first former 2008 Republican presidential candidate...

You guys should check this group out. I met one of their members out in Ohio working with a congressional candidate. They knew what they were doing and I was impressed but i didn't realize that Alex had his own team until yesterday. I looked at their website its got some really solid ideas in terms of strategy. Check it out: http://www.vandenberg-strategies.com

I am starting a blog dedicated to covering the Wisconsin 3rd Congressional seat race (the 3rd covers western Wisconsin from Illinois to Saint Croix County. It is going to be taking a close look at Ron Kind, and I hope will help defeat him in 2006. I am also looking for help in gathering material for it. Here it is

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Internal vs. exteranl polls

2004 US Senate Elections These are the states I am watching: Florida: I believe that Martinez will help Bush here. I think Cubans that are having doubts about Bush will support him when they vote for Martinez. I think most Hispanics would like to have Martinez representing them and that will push him past Castor. Castor comes off very old and too loyal to the “party.” And she is in real trouble when she has to explain about how she handled the “terrorist professor” when she was the president of USF. She has been around in politics for over ten...

PLEASE FReep this poll: www.wisopinion.com The best candidate for the United States (and for Wisconsin) is Tim Michels!!! Look for the right-hand column, and scroll just a touch to hit the poll.